I agree completely. Except perhaps the end of s7 being the true death of the series. It started its decline before that, but the deus ex machina trend started around there (before which success was based on ingenuity -- a kind of scifi MacGyver:) ). At this point, a child could outwit carter and the bunch. I still watch the show, but out of a kind of morbid curiosity interlaced with boredom. That, and for claudia black (!!).
The show is dead and gone...all that remains is the shell.
Link? I haven't seen em actually fire at anybody, but as a californian I've had the ak-wielding bereted guys point their guns at me before (the customs guy claimed he returned my passport, which he did not...and I made the mistake of raising my voice. Big no no). I assume they're the shoot-on-sight guys gp was referring to? If so I wouldn't be surprised in the least. I was visiting various mesoamerican archaeological sites and ended up forking hundreds of dollars over to dozens of corrupt police officers. In guatemala and belize I was never pulled over, not even once.
To hell with Iran, lets invade Mexico. They started it. We can set em up like puerto rico: tax the hell out of em and all they get out of it is conditional u.s. citizenship. It's less fun to illegally cross the border and use up u.s. resources when you're paying for those services, and the crossing is legal. We can just maintain the current taxation/fee setup the Mexican government is running, but redirect the $$$ from los gatos gordos to where it belongs: the U.S.
Actually, I already implied that. If you bothered to check my link before posting... (I know, it's a lot to ask of slashdotters). Rather than posting both links I linked to the robot and summarized the tobacco.
Wrong. The episode you mentioned has nicotine-addicted tobacco beetles laying their eggs in the tobacco, so second hand smokers who breath in the fumes (and don't have a steady stream of cigarettes) are eaten alive by the hatching beetles. Nicotine in the lung cells and all that.
Zhoukoudien is an H. erectus site, my bad. Habilis was snacked on occasionally throughout the world, but Zhoukoudien is the only known site where H. erectus was snacked on. It's one of those toss up sites, an equal number of anthropologists support it as disregard it.
Indeed. This is REALLY old news in the anthro field. Or rather an old theory, which has been spreading rapidly. More recently with sites like Zhoukoudien, China (where H. habilis was snacked on by giant hyenas, biting through the faceplate to get at nutritious brains), we're realizing that even early Homos were on the menu (article mentions Australopithecus, not its progeny H. habilis).
As my phys anthro professor put it:
1. Lions
2. Hyenas
3. Humans and carrion birds
(that refers to H. habilis and before, H. erectus on up were off the Hyena menu afawk)
It says it in the title. News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. Not only is this news for the archaeology nerds (such as myself), but our past most certainly matters.
Oh please. The real indignation is that The Prophet CANNOT BE DEPICTED. PERIOD. Whereas in Christian society, images of God and Jesus are plastered everywhere. This is akin to me going out, digging up your dead parents, and hanging them up on a crucifix. You're saying if members of your church saw this and were agitated by it, you'd go out and "crush" them?
And over half the voting population of the United States voted an extremist into office "democratically". I doubt *that* many people are true extremists. Just indifferent to who they want leading their country. As is the case in the Middle East.
Hamas got the votes because they're willing to take action to protect their people, regardless of the human loss of life. Just like the current Bush Administration. The only major difference is that Palestinians are directly in the line of fire, and putting their lives on the line every day. Not so with Americans. That, and Hamas has a significantly smaller wartime budget to spread around and as such, has to improvise.
The difference between terrorist and soldier/freedom fighter is whether or not they're on your side. Only a couple decades ago bin Laden was a member of the latter (in the eyes of the Democratic world), despite his extremist views.
It strikes me that modern Americans, for example, are a lot bigger than ancient humans and presumably have stronger bones due to a relatively high-calcium diet.
Unfortunately Homo sapiens are pretty scrawny when compared to some of our ancestors (even if you exclude neanderthals, which had thigh bones something like 5x the cross-diameter of ours). The shifts didn't occur overnight, and early H. sapiens retained distinctly H. erectus traits long into the Upper Paleolithic...some groups significantly longer than others (Native Americans, for example). H. sapiens pretty much take a quantity over quality approach to life.:) Early man numbered in the hundreds, and later low thousands. Archaeologists have unearthed a fair %age of those first humans. Unlike the tens of thousands that lived just a few millennia ago.
Height mainly has to do with supply and demand. As health and food supply increase, so does height. Your American reference is -- literally -- a textbook example of this (although your comparison is not entirely correct, Americans were huge in relation to the rest of the world in the mid 20th century, and to their recent FOB ancestors). The tremendous growth over the last century is attributed to the focus on agriculture and the moderate health care offered (at the time). Places that have free healthcare provided for *all* citizens show even higher growth than in the U.S.
Early H. sapiens had a tremendous supply of food, despite their failings (by modern standards) in health. And I attribute the superior-health belief to "Civilization Redeemed" style advertising, since not everything can truly be fixed by taking a pill. Anyway. The atlatl is a means of launching a spear high up into the air, from which it falls with very little direction (other than downward). Hunting involved tossing a pointy object up into the air and hoping it landed in a target of...*ahem*...mammoth proportions. Entire herds were driven off the side of cliffs to feed a single group. That's a HUGE excess of food. Now back to the present, we have thousands starving while natural resources are being reallocated to killing oneanother. This is not an efficient use of resources, and even with the "recent" development of agriculture we're on a downward spiral evolutionally. Even the current local trend of working out daily is helping to impair us and reduces the longevity of our skeletal structures (wear and tear on bones = earlier onset of arthritis).
So to sum it up, nah. Height and girth have to do with plenty of factors, including climate and altitude. Overall we have pretty wimpy bones.
I mean, you defeat your argument in the very second sentence, and I quote: "You are an archaeologist (...)"
If an archaeologist found an intact grave, he will bloody well look what's inside; he had probably been waiting his entire life for that opportunity.
Not necessarily. Many sites are set aside and intentionally preserved for future archaeologists to excavate (with more advanced technology). The act of excavating destroys the site, so modern archaeologists will often forego instant gratification in the name of science.
That said, I'd have no issues with digging into a modern christian's tomb. Unfortunately modern man just doesn't have the skeletal robustness of earlier "models," so there wouldn't be much left of him/her to look at. Possessions on the other hand...:) I wonder how many years an ipod will hang in there...
Amen (pardon the pun). I am no lover of Bush, and quite frankly am sick of his supporters trashing liberals (Uh duh what do you think the president is? Certainly not conservative...).
That said, I'm also tired of hearing the Bush bashing from professors. For one thing, they're preaching to the choir (University of California). But more importantly, some of these profs just ramble on and on so long it's easy to forget what the lecture was supposed to be about. In a quarter-based university, it's important to be concise and get to the point immediately. If I want to talk politics, allow me to do so outside of the lecture hall. I do not want to hear the latest bush joke, I want to hear the solutions for the problem set assigned the week before. Or for my most recent bush-bashing professor, the ethnomusicological analysis of the Ottoman Empire, a class which is completely lecture-based and has no accompanying textbooks...
Many government employees have every other friday off, and work 9 hours every day (7-5 for example, with the exception of the "on" friday, which is 8 hours or 730-430) to make up for it. In a way, the government's already half way there.
Oh? So the manufacturers of the penis pump are donating to various charities, or do you mean they're funding cancer research? Perhaps you're referring to the philanthropic spammers out there, who give back to their communities?
I do believe you missed the point.:) Spammers earn money for themselves and the companies that sponsor them, but do nothing for the recipient of the spam (which is less than can be said for TV and radio). Unless you consider spam a Public Service...
It takes me 20-30 times as long to not watch a TV commercial.
Really? It takes me about half a second to hit mute...
Besides, what service is the spammer providing me in exchange for my viewing of his content? TV and radio fund my entertainment (although I do get some entertainment out of all the Nigerian scammers who have my older email address).
I believe he's referring to the city being able to seize your home if drugs are found there (or is it restricted to drug sales?). The law varies from place to place.
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The show is dead and gone...all that remains is the shell.
So uh...where's my money?
To hell with Iran, lets invade Mexico. They started it. We can set em up like puerto rico: tax the hell out of em and all they get out of it is conditional u.s. citizenship. It's less fun to illegally cross the border and use up u.s. resources when you're paying for those services, and the crossing is legal. We can just maintain the current taxation/fee setup the Mexican government is running, but redirect the $$$ from los gatos gordos to where it belongs: the U.S.
So when God gave me a soul he also gave me cancer? What a jerk.
MySpace is a useful way of tracking all 9738 of your online friends. Really, would you be able to do that on your own?
What we're concerned with is people attacking you
Hey, don't discount him so quickly. We can get Chris Carter and his writers on criminal conspiracy charges for 9/11...
(the "Wrong" was directed at your connection between robots and tobacco, not the "I saw this x-files episode")
Actually, I already implied that. If you bothered to check my link before posting... (I know, it's a lot to ask of slashdotters). Rather than posting both links I linked to the robot and summarized the tobacco.
Wrong. The episode you mentioned has nicotine-addicted tobacco beetles laying their eggs in the tobacco, so second hand smokers who breath in the fumes (and don't have a steady stream of cigarettes) are eaten alive by the hatching beetles. Nicotine in the lung cells and all that.
Sorry, it's been a long day. :)
As my phys anthro professor put it:
1. Lions
2. Hyenas
3. Humans and carrion birds
(that refers to H. habilis and before, H. erectus on up were off the Hyena menu afawk)
Apparently I missed the previous replies questioning imipak's presence on slashdot
It says it in the title. News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. Not only is this news for the archaeology nerds (such as myself), but our past most certainly matters.
I think not.
Hamas got the votes because they're willing to take action to protect their people, regardless of the human loss of life. Just like the current Bush Administration. The only major difference is that Palestinians are directly in the line of fire, and putting their lives on the line every day. Not so with Americans. That, and Hamas has a significantly smaller wartime budget to spread around and as such, has to improvise.
The difference between terrorist and soldier/freedom fighter is whether or not they're on your side. Only a couple decades ago bin Laden was a member of the latter (in the eyes of the Democratic world), despite his extremist views.
Unfortunately Homo sapiens are pretty scrawny when compared to some of our ancestors (even if you exclude neanderthals, which had thigh bones something like 5x the cross-diameter of ours). The shifts didn't occur overnight, and early H. sapiens retained distinctly H. erectus traits long into the Upper Paleolithic...some groups significantly longer than others (Native Americans, for example). H. sapiens pretty much take a quantity over quality approach to life. :) Early man numbered in the hundreds, and later low thousands. Archaeologists have unearthed a fair %age of those first humans. Unlike the tens of thousands that lived just a few millennia ago.
Height mainly has to do with supply and demand. As health and food supply increase, so does height. Your American reference is -- literally -- a textbook example of this (although your comparison is not entirely correct, Americans were huge in relation to the rest of the world in the mid 20th century, and to their recent FOB ancestors). The tremendous growth over the last century is attributed to the focus on agriculture and the moderate health care offered (at the time). Places that have free healthcare provided for *all* citizens show even higher growth than in the U.S.
Early H. sapiens had a tremendous supply of food, despite their failings (by modern standards) in health. And I attribute the superior-health belief to "Civilization Redeemed" style advertising, since not everything can truly be fixed by taking a pill. Anyway. The atlatl is a means of launching a spear high up into the air, from which it falls with very little direction (other than downward). Hunting involved tossing a pointy object up into the air and hoping it landed in a target of...*ahem*...mammoth proportions. Entire herds were driven off the side of cliffs to feed a single group. That's a HUGE excess of food. Now back to the present, we have thousands starving while natural resources are being reallocated to killing oneanother. This is not an efficient use of resources, and even with the "recent" development of agriculture we're on a downward spiral evolutionally. Even the current local trend of working out daily is helping to impair us and reduces the longevity of our skeletal structures (wear and tear on bones = earlier onset of arthritis).
So to sum it up, nah. Height and girth have to do with plenty of factors, including climate and altitude. Overall we have pretty wimpy bones.
Not necessarily. Many sites are set aside and intentionally preserved for future archaeologists to excavate (with more advanced technology). The act of excavating destroys the site, so modern archaeologists will often forego instant gratification in the name of science.
Some light reading for the doubtful/curious:
http://www.usi.edu/extserv/archlgy/whatsarch.html
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~jerwin/Week2.html
That said, I'd have no issues with digging into a modern christian's tomb. Unfortunately modern man just doesn't have the skeletal robustness of earlier "models," so there wouldn't be much left of him/her to look at. :) I wonder how many years an ipod will hang in there...
Possessions on the other hand...
What Would Spiderman Do?
That said, I'm also tired of hearing the Bush bashing from professors. For one thing, they're preaching to the choir (University of California). But more importantly, some of these profs just ramble on and on so long it's easy to forget what the lecture was supposed to be about. In a quarter-based university, it's important to be concise and get to the point immediately. If I want to talk politics, allow me to do so outside of the lecture hall. I do not want to hear the latest bush joke, I want to hear the solutions for the problem set assigned the week before. Or for my most recent bush-bashing professor, the ethnomusicological analysis of the Ottoman Empire, a class which is completely lecture-based and has no accompanying textbooks...
Just call the Law Offices of Bluster and Dollop: "We Sue Robots."
Many government employees have every other friday off, and work 9 hours every day (7-5 for example, with the exception of the "on" friday, which is 8 hours or 730-430) to make up for it. In a way, the government's already half way there.
I do believe you missed the point. :) Spammers earn money for themselves and the companies that sponsor them, but do nothing for the recipient of the spam (which is less than can be said for TV and radio). Unless you consider spam a Public Service...
Really? It takes me about half a second to hit mute ...
Besides, what service is the spammer providing me in exchange for my viewing of his content? TV and radio fund my entertainment (although I do get some entertainment out of all the Nigerian scammers who have my older email address).
I believe he's referring to the city being able to seize your home if drugs are found there (or is it restricted to drug sales?). The law varies from place to place.